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jjfosterlab.bsky.social @jjfosterlab.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Thank you @sercansayin.bsky.social for involving us in this study, which teaches us locusts care about looks, and won't march with just anyone! Featuring modelling of locust vision by @gkolyfetis.bsky.social 🪳👁️🤖🧪

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Lochlan W @lochlanw.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

🚨🦋 Thrilled to share my first PhD paper published in PNAS this week, in collaboration with Sören Kannegieser and @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social @insect-vision.bsky.social: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... We found hawkmoths use a convergent visual control strategy for appendage guidance. 👁️🫳 🧵 below.

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Preparations are in full swing, and the excitement is building for our Lepidopteran Satellite Meeting @neuroethology.org #ICN2026 with @alexhaverkamp.bsky.social and Simon Sponberg 🦋🐛

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Visual Insect Neuroethology Group @insect-vision.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Congratulations to Anupama @manel-a-pama.bsky.social, who won the Poster Prize at the annual biology Poster Session! She will also bring her poster to #ICN26 in Vancouver, so stay tuned 🦋🌸 @neuroethology.org

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Visual Insect Neuroethology Group @insect-vision.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

New paper from the lab 🎉 We compared learning across differential conditioning paradigms in the hummingbird hawkmoth and, surprisingly, associations were worse with strong negative reinforcements. Find out how reinforcements like quinine interfere with learning in these hawkmoths 👇

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Incredible insect-light display last night at lake Konstanz!! #insect #flight #dance #nature #photography

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jjfosterlab.bsky.social @jjfosterlab.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Do bright lights change how you dance? 🔆💃 Waggle-dancing honeybees interpret bright UV & green as the sun, but dim UV as a patch of sky. Thanks Keram Pfeiffer @uni-wuerzburg.de for trusting me with your data & @jgraving.bsky.social for the circular GLMM. doi.org/10.21203/rs....

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High intensity overrides spectral cues in dancing honeybees

Foraging honeybees rely on a celestial compass to navigate to and from the hive, using the sun’s position as an orientation reference. When the sun is hidden from view,bees can determine its azi...

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jjfosterlab.bsky.social @jjfosterlab.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

@gkolyfetis.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de presenting his work on bee navigation at the annual meeting of the Beekeepers of Baden in Radolfzell 🍯🐝. Thank you for the invitation! Great to see the public interest in science and find out what we can learn from each other. 👁️🧭

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Enjoyed watching the #mason #bees that moved into the little bee house on our balcony feast from our rhododendron. The way they wedge themselves into the flowers 😄 They might also have found some little extra sugary surprises - it was Easter after all 🐰🌸🐝 #WildlifePhotography #insect #bee #macro

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 11/03/2026

Special issue editors @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social, Basil el Jundi & Kentaro Arikawa introduce their special issue on the neuroethology of lepidoptera 🦋. The issue covers a broad field of research spanning from neuroanatomy, sensory perception to behavior. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Neuroethology on the move with butterflies and moths - Journal of Comparative Physiology A

Journal of Comparative Physiology A - Lepidopteran insects, namely butterflies and moths, are visually striking and have fascinated scientists as well as the general public for decades, prompting...

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Visual Insect Neuroethology Group @insect-vision.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

New paper out on the decision strategies of bumblebees. When using visual cues to make flower choices, they switch strategy with sensory context, learning as much as necessary, but as little as possible. Based on their training time, we propose a mechanism for this switch. tinyurl.com/2r9d4jrs 🌸🐝🧠

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Bees flexibly adjust decision strategies to information content in a foraging task

Bumblebees flexibly adjust their learning strategies to the sensory challenge, balancing costs and benefits of multicue learning.

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Lochlan W @lochlanw.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Excited to share my first PhD preprint! w/ Sören Kannegieser and @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social @insect-vision.bsky.social We investigated how hawkmoths coordinate lateralized sensory and motor control for appendage guidance, revealing similar control principles to vertebrates doi.org/10.64898/202...

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Visual Insect Neuroethology Group @insect-vision.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

New paper from the lab, led by @ronjabigge.bsky.social, in collaboration with Kentaro Arikawa. We reconcile contrast and spatial processing functions of lamina monopolar cells by integrating 3D morphology, connectivity and neurophysiology in the hummingbird hawkmoth. tinyurl.com/mvnh3325 For more 👇

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Visual Insect Neuroethology Group @insect-vision.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Visiting the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart for our science-art collaboration with the Akademie and @zukunftskolleg.bsky.social Konstanz. Excited to see the final student projects inspired by vision in insects after this field trip!

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Visual Insect Neuroethology Group @insect-vision.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Season's Greetings from the Lab in our most - Christmas party award winning !! - festive attire. 🎄👼🐮👑🐑⭐ With animalistic support from @jjfosterlab.bsky.social Happy holidays and a great start into the New Year to you all! extra Christmassy stars to anyone who guesses what we are 😉

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Great fun to participate in the #UniKonstanz Open Science Slam 2025 🎤✨🤓 Presented insights of our "market research" on insect preferences for flowers - with support from citizen science. Lineup of fantastic speakers and an amazing audience ! Big thanks to the #TeamOpenScience for organising.

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IMPRS-QBEE @imprs-qbee.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

How do insects use vision to interact with flowers? IMPRS-QBEE student @lochlanw.bsky.social, working with @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social tells us more about his work on hummingbird hawkmoths and how they interact with flower patterns @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/juEhw...

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Lochlan Walsh | Insect sensory biology

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Best audience ever - 100+ children at a live show of the BR Lachlabor radio show, where I was invited for expertise on animal questions. 🤓🐆🐦🦗 What I learned: we should also have dance breaks for adult events!

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Visual Insect Neuroethology Group @insect-vision.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

We had a rather unexpected presenter at our lab meeting this morning 😄🪲🎓

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Thanks to this #hummingbird #hawkmoth, which enjoyed a late season snack of ornamental salvia, I have collected proof that insects are input-output systems 😂💦! #insect #nature #photography

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George Kolyfetis @gkolyfetis.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Our findings on bees' photoreceptors are now officially published in Biology Letters of the Royal Society Publishing!! Thanks again for a productive collaboration @jjfosterlab.bsky.social and @gregoeur.bsky.social !! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Bit of an orgy going on at the moment 😆... Every other Scabiosa flower is hosting one or more six-spot burnets (Blutströpfchen in German). I was wondering why they are mating this late: it is the caterpillar stage that overwinters in this species 🤓🦋❄️! #insect #nature #photography

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Dressing up fancy for a day out? This little guy made sure to match his flower background with a smashing yellow "moustache". 🐝🌸 Drone of Bombus lapidarius, the red-tailed #bumblebee (Steinhummel). #photography #insect

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Beautiful work by @ronjabigge.bsky.social and Rebecca Grittner is out 🥳 How do the statistics of natural visual scenes and the relevance of these stimuli for the moths' flight safety shape the integration of parallel pathways for flight guidance? ✈️🦋

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

After days of torrential rains, we had a few hours of sunshine today - which were enjoyed by humans and insects alike 🌸🐝 there is a great number of large hoverflies around - any idea what species these might be? #insect #pollinator #hoverfly #photography

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

It was a pleasure to be part of this wonderful podcast! I can highly recommend to check out all episodes (there is a whole first season to explore as well 🤓).

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Visual Insect Neuroethology Group @insect-vision.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Float like a hawkmoth and drink like one too! What better way to understand insect behaviour? 🍹🦋🍹 An exciting evening of science outreach by the lake, by @cbehav.bsky.social ‪‪‪@excinequality.bsky.social‬ With moth impersonators: @emmarusconi.bsky.social @manel-a-pama.bsky.social ky.social‬

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Congratulations to @ronjabigge.bsky.social to an awesome #PhD and a great defense at Würzburg University! #proudPI She was welcomed home and celebrated in style with @insect-vision.bsky.social and the whole neurobiology community in Konstanz.

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Really excited for our research to be featured in this beautiful #preLight article about our study Bumblebees flexibly adjust learning and decision strategies to sensory information content in a foraging task by Tim Schwanitz & Cemre Coskun. 🐝

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George Kolyfetis @gkolyfetis.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I'm really happy to share the first preprint of my PhD work in @jjfosterlab.bsky.social! During a fruitful collaboration with @gregoeur.bsky.social, we uncovered a surprising feature of bees' eyes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Spotted the first hummingbird #hawkmoth of the season - and many adorable #bee-flies! Long-tongued hover power squared 🐝🌸🦋 #insect #pollinator #photography #spring

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Visual Insect Neuroethology Group @insect-vision.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

We are excited to have Aruna visit our lab over the summer as part of her PhD! She is investigating how hawkmoths actively shape their flight trajectories to better sense the spatial layout of their environment while working towards a 3D tracking system to accurately capture their movement!

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Visual Insect Neuroethology Group @insect-vision.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Welcome to the LAB: Emma Rusconi @emmarusconi.bsky.social We are excited that Emma has recently joined us as a research assistant! She is currently investigating how bumblebees generalize visual patterns, and will soon investigate how nocturnal moths navigate in different light conditions.

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

New review about "Path integration and optic flow in flying insects" doi.org/10.1007/s003.... One of the questions asked, where in the visual field insects perceive optic flow, is addressed and discussed in our recent work: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

So excited to see all of this hard work coming together, as @ronjabigge.bsky.social has finalised her thesis and is submitting today 👏🥂#submission #PhDthesis

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Visual Insect Neuroethology Group @insect-vision.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

We had a fantastic #retreat in the Black Forest together with @jjfosterlab.bsky.social and Nouvian labs. We escaped rooms, worked on laboratory code of conduct, went hiking, learned about first aid, data visualisation and pose estimation, brainstormed science and went wild playing games!

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Fantastische Location für einen Vortrag über das nächtliche Sehvermögen der Insekten mit einem wunderbaren Publikum! Vielen Dank an Kortizes und das Planetarium #Nürnberg für die Einladung und die tolle Organisation. 🙏 @jjfosterlab.bsky.social für die 📸

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Visual Insect Neuroethology Group @insect-vision.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

🎄🎁🎄We're celebrating another buzzing year at the insect vision lab. Season's greetings and a happy new year from our hive to yours 🎉🦋🐝🎉 #Moths #Happyholidays

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Visual Insect Neuroethology Group @insect-vision.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Hello Bluesky 👋 we have buzzed and hummed our way here too 🦋🐝 As the Visual Neuroethology Lab @unikonstanz.bsky.social we are fascinated by the complex behaviour that the tiny but mighty insect brain generates. Find us for more info on insect-vision.com & watch this space for updates 😀.

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Visual Neuroethology Lab

Insect Visual Neuroethology Lab, led by Anna Stöckl at Konstanz University

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Since this platform seems to be full of #fungifriends, asking for expertise: anyone knows the name of these brain-like creatures? 🧠 appealed to me for professional reasons 🤓 ( #naturephotography, black forest, Germany) #fungi #mushrooms

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Ever wondered how to move a tongue the length of your body to some yummy food? Tanvi Deora & I summarised what is known about the most elegant of tongue-waggling - the sensorimotor control of the hawkmoth proboscis - in a recent review in ICB t.ly/gZDHX 🦋😛

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The Hawkmoth Proboscis: An Insect Model for Sensorimotor Control of Reaching and Exploration

Synopsis. Reaching and inspecting objects is an intricate part of human life, which is shared by a diversity of animals across phyla. In addition to append

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Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Excited to join the community! Will be seeking out old and new connections in neuroethology, insect, pollinator, vision, behaviour, anatomy, science, education, and many other spaces on this platform 🤓😀

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